You know, we’ve heard so much over the past two years about the dangerous new onslaught of malware-ridden spam that was just around the corner, we failed to actually notice that we’ve taken the corner and been driving for awhile …

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New Spam Campaign Warns of War With North Korea

  A new spam campaign is using an old technique – fake news stories. This time they are taking advantage of the rising tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world, specifically the United States. The subject line …

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Can Training Your Users Help Make Your Spam Filter Better?

Many people who work in IT often look upon training users as an exasperating experience. Conversely, users often view training programs as a boring waste of time. When both sides take this approach, if often results in a self-fulfilling prophecy. …

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Hate spam all you like. Despise spammers even more, but you have to admit that they’re resilient and darn it all, they’re downright wily. You’ve probably seen it all in the bowels of your server rooms, spam filters full of …

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Android Malware Being Spread By Cutwail Botnet

The Cutwail botnet, one of the largest of its kind, has a new bag of tricks up its sleeve. Security experts have discovered it’s sending malicious spam that’s distributing Android malware. The messages, which look like notifications from the IRS …

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A Brief History of Spam – The Internet’s Most Wanted

Welcome back to our series on everyone’s favourite inbox contents, spam. In today’s post, we’re going to take a look at a veritable rogues’ gallery; a collection of charlatans, cheats, and knaves; a book of blackguards, scumbags, and scallywags; the …

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Attack on Spamhaus Means Spammers Still Have Some Fight

In what was called the worst denial of service attack in the history of the Internet a 300 gigabit per second barrage of traffic was able to successfully bring down not only the Spamhaus network, but it was reported that …

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Beware Summer Vacation Themed Spam Campaigns

  Spring is here and summer is just around the corner, and that means travel. Whether it’s a spring break party or a long awaited summer vacation, this is the time of year when people are planning trips and looking for …

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Tax Email to Stop Spam?

You can’t blame Gordon Wozniak for trying to reduce spam, even if his proposed method is a bit flaky. The Berkley California councilman has suggested that one way to stop spam and save the United States Post Office is to …

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First Online Casino to Get US Approval Is a Spammer

  Online gambling has been unwelcome in the United States for some time, but recently several states have legalized it. 888 Holdings is the very first company to be approved to operate in the US, but that achievement has been …

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